The Issues

Govern With Transparency

Govern with Transparency

Increasing public trust depends on transparency and full disclosure. Our incumbent Council launched multiple committees: Finance, Investment Policy and Technology. Beginning with the Finance Advisory Committee, we need to heed their advice and recommendations – and actively implement solutions. The Investment Committee is underutilized and has never been given the most important responsibility to review and advise on management of the $15MM of Pension debt.

Solutions to open up City government to citizens by requiring:

Bi-Annual release of pension debt balance. Currently only made public annually with information that is 1.5 years old.

Provide all costs. The City does not show employee costs inclusive of all pension costs and residents know it is being hidden and impacting financial trade-off decisions